Re:How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications (2023)
by strogonoff on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:53AM
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Accommodating terminal colour schemes, however crazy to you they might be—white on black, black on white, dark brown on off-white Solarized-style, etc.—is basics of TUI design.
Personally I alternate between light on dark and dark on light (the latter sometimes together with OS-wide colour inversion feature).
Personally I alternate between light on dark and dark on light (the latter sometimes together with OS-wide colour inversion feature).